Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite these efforts, to date the attacks continue, pushing most major carriers representing over 60% of global container capacity, to alter their routes. For example, the Freightos Baltic Index indicates a 69% increase to North America’s East Coast and a staggering 226% to Northern Europe since the crisis began.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The capacity of their sortation and distribution systems often decides on their competitiveness. Thomas Wiesmann from BEUMER Group , pictured above, knows which sortation trends owners are following, how they can react to them and where the journey will take them. Market trends? More performance required.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More Resources Home November 7, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

I have seen a lot of scary examples where a company wants to stay in the old box and connect new technologies and innovation…….and To improve your supply chain capacities, you must embrace emerging and disruptive digitalization technologies in a structured and intelligent way; one way is to change how you operate.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce transport capacities in the market. The driver shortage is affecting available transport capacities. If they are in luck, they may find and contract with another carrier that has free freight space despite the driver shortage and scarce transport capacities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Environmental and labor groups filed separate suits. Well, Amazon workers at a facility in New York voted not to join an upstart union only weeks after the group won a resounding victory at a warehouse across the street. These sixteen states were joined by the District of Columbia, the City of New York, and a Bay Area organization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. This is clearly an opportunity and challenge for retailers and last mile logistics companies.

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of those keenly watching the trends is CBRE Group Inc. New development and capacity are being taken up quickly. For example, rents in those two locations have risen by about 40% compared to the previous year. For example, interest rates do not significantly affect the speed of occupier activity. NYSE: CBRE).

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

Truckload pricing software is key to a broker’s ability to buy freight and sell capacity profitably in the daily spot environment. You can see pricing trends geographically, which allows you to set realistic prices for individual lanes. And compare current rates against historical data to see how spot and contract pricing are trending.

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

Truckload pricing software is key to a broker’s ability to buy freight and sell capacity profitably in the daily spot environment. You can see pricing trends geographically, which allows you to set realistic prices for individual lanes. And compare current rates against historical data to see how spot and contract pricing are trending.

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

Truckload pricing software is key to a broker’s ability to buy freight and sell capacity profitably in the daily spot environment. You can see pricing trends geographically, which allows you to set realistic prices for individual lanes. And compare current rates against historical data to see how spot and contract pricing are trending.

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ShipLilly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The box availability data from Container xChange (an online platform) has confirmed this trend. Information regarding this trend was extracted from the Container Availability Index (CAx) which serves both locations. This trend has impacted the market in several different ways. For example, carriers have cut per diem times.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

BITO has maintained a consistent growth trend over the years but, more importantly, we make regular modest profits averaging about 5% year-on-year. With the family-run BITO GmbH group reinvesting profits back into the business, this ensures we remain a solid, financially stable and reliable partner for our clients into the future.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

He is head of sales for the cement industry at BEUMER Group, a company which since its foundation in 1935 develops future-oriented solutions for the construction and cement industry. ” This means: recognising trends and offering the right solutions. . What happens if for example a packaging system in Indonesia or Peru fails?

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ShipLilly

MAY 19, 2020

It equates to a complete loss of 7 million twenty-foot equivalent units of capacity between Europe and the United States. After this report was released additional cancellations were announced by groups like Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk. This capacity can be determined in advance by way of sailing schedules. Looking forward.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This begs the question: Even if the industry gets more truck drivers, just how much is enough to relieve the strain on trucking capacity? Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

However, recent activity suggests that capacity has been overbuilt by some large e-commerce providers –leading to select project cancellations and postponements. This shows that e-commerce sales have been growing at a rapid and persistent rate in the US, and is likely similar to that of trends in many other countries as well.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is usually accomplished by using statistical sampling of all incoming materials that can produce charts to show the quality trends over time. Capacity : Having excessive unused warehouse space wastes money but being over design capacity probably means the warehouse isn’t operating as efficiently as it could.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

SONAR Lane Acuity Plus provides lane-level insight into market stability and rate benchmarking , helping participants identify freight rate and capacity risk on a lane. . The higher the stability score, the more consistent the rate and capacity are on a given lane, resulting in a consistently high rate of tender acceptance.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

The retailers that performed the best over the past year were generally the ones that sold essential goods, such as food, or benefited from the trends of the hour, such as home repair. Greater efforts to mitigate volatility in freight costs, such as using more dedicated capacity or making larger use of private fleets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. The transparency from concurrent planning allowed them to analyze demand by country and inventory in various locations to prioritize production capacity where inventory was lower or demand signals more erratic.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

In its most recent monthly analysis of the global air freight market , the International Air Transport Association (IATA) observed that while demand for air freight was softening, cargo volumes are still trending higher. Industry-wide freight ton kilometers (FTK) grew by 2.0% over the past six months.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The report identifies the trends and associated risks impacting global supply chains over the coming year and highlights five key themes to enable organisations to achieve resilience: Supplier transparency as a key decider of business success. Identifying opportunities in emerging trends.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 4, 2024

With the recent stress placed upon the supply chain in recent years and the changing political alignment across the globe, we are seeing a trend for supply to be bought closer to home which has resulted in Australian MTO manufacturers attracting significant capital input and flourishing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Here are some good examples: The Australian retailer Woolworths dominated Australian online trade in the sector food and personal care with a volume of about two billion USD and a market share between 15 and 20 percent within just a few years of entering the online market. One example is combining the IoT with cloud technologies.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

Lastly, we know this trend will continue, with 7 out of 10 consumers saying they will “stay online” with their grocery purchases, all this based on IRI data. Unique to 2021, we are also accounting for additional factors that could have an impact in our capacity planning. At the same time, restaurants are starting to reopen.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2018

Directly opposing macroeconomic trends. Transportation capacity has, and will, continue to be the most dominant factor in transportation management for the next five years (see Figure 2). The other top trend, however, that is going to make the situation worse — e-commerce. Hot competition, economies and costs.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2017

In today’s post, I’ll share some concrete examples of machine learning applications used today in the context of S&OP. The first example is to use machine learning for improving the results of your promotions and improving sales. Take the Coca Cola company, for example. Machine learning to boost your sales.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

What was once only available to a small group of people in the business, can now be deployed with a simplified apps-based approach, as an ideal way to transfer knowledge to the new generation of supply chain planners. Case Example: Profitable Production Capacity Planning. So how does this work?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Modular AMR-based sortation systems are also scalable, so additional robots can be introduced as and when they are needed to cope with any spikes in throughput and, what’s more, if an individual robot malfunctions, it is simply and quickly removed from the ‘shop floor’ and replaced with no discernible drop in throughput capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The most recent McKinsey Global Survey on AI shows a 25% increase in use by companies over the prior year, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Machine learning can find patterns in data far beyond the cognitive capacity of humans, but since math learns from the data it is fed, it is at a loss when context changes.

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Parade

MAY 8, 2019

Trucking is such a fragmented industry that there’s no data on specific carriers and drivers to differentiate their levels of service, as a result they’re all grouped together like a commodity and priced the same. and digital bookings, on-top to increase firm productivity, defensibility and valuation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) First, the supply chain group truly needs to understand buying behaviors and key attributes of their customers. across 17 different segments and customer personas. A Transformation Journey.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ralf Duester, member of the board of the SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will shape the year 2023. In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko. Collaboration will be implemented. foreign workers.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic. The Dark Store Trend. Target’s strategy is just one of many examples of retailers exploiting their brick-and-mortar assets to support ecommerce.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 21, 2021

Group items into hierarchical structures and assign category attributes. For starters there are many aspects to forecasting including seasonality, trends, adding promotional activity and allowing for forecasting error. With every SKU categorized into an inventory matrix, specific stocking rules are applied to each group.

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